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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bona fides /ˌbəʊnə ˈfʌɪdiːz/

▶noun

1 honesty and sincerity of intention.

2 [treated as pl.] informal a person's credentials.

– origin L., lit. ‘good faith’.

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